a short interview with filmmaker Ann Marie Neming by Terry Dawes Vancouver filmmaker/poetess/maverick Ann Marie Fleming has concocted another cinematic feast for us film goers to gorge ourselves on like the little mud snorting piggy wiggys that we are. Idiosyncratic, relentlessly curious, visually resplendent; what don't | like about her movie style? She had iwo short films in this year's big Festival competition: Buckingham Palace ,a very short 35mm piece which formally was very nice but...(She grimaced when | said | had seen it but failed to pursue the reasons for the film's lack of nourishment); and a mockumentary (her term) called /t's Me Again, a profile piece of twins real and fictional. When | read the info blurb on this film, | thought 'Uh oh, sounds like a PBS after-school special’. As it turned out, it was one of the most thrilling compositions on the board. According to AM Fleming, her work is mostly concerned with the construction of meaning and the expectations that people have upon encountering one another. Certainly, It's Me Again swished around the concept of twin-ness, duplicity, and doubling in a very elliptical and poetic fashion. | reminesced about the beauty of cell division upon seeing it. Hardly ever does the word "art" mean so much to us (ie. artifice). For our discussion, | had a tape recorder but decided against using it in favour of the uncanny reliability of our memory banks. But of course, what she said was in-one-ear-out-through-the-mouth. We discussed her alma mater salad days at this here institution as well as her reason for film involvement (she claims A Zed and Two Noughts and Family Veiwing as those precious if-you-can-do-it-I- can-too viewing experiences which prodded her over the abyss). On a trip to Europe, she began having strange dreams and wrote them down. "I never write down my dreams!", she exclaimed. She saw the Greenaway picture, A Zed and Two Noughts, as a signpost that maybe she could adequately communicate those dream images in a filmic way. Another thing we discussed was her waking up to the fact (only recently, she claims) that things were different for women than for men in ways systemically and creatively. She said that women and men make different films but | did not pursue this line or ask her to clarify this notion. We simply nodded and moved on. She claims that previously, she never really considered gender an issue. Also, she said that when thinking about a list of people she admires, most of them are guys. Oh, and let's see, she expressed fatigue at the notion that ten years had expired and that she still lived like a student. Recently her grandpa grilled her, "When are you going to stop making these little films and make something good?" . Her work takes the torch from those before her and moves the medium a step further. | can only encourage all of you to go and see her films, preferably in a theatre, since that's the viewing experience she had in mind when she cranked out these little gems. This article is an advertisement. It's Me Again and Buckingham Palace will screen at the Pacific Cinematheque Wed. and Thurs. Nov. 24 & 25, 7:30 pm Vancouver's Picks of the 12th. Annual International Film Festival The Piano (Austrailia)...directed by Jane Champion, Air Canada Award for Most Popular Film The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan/USA)...directed by Ang Lee Daens (Belgium)...directed by Stijn Coninx Bhaji on the Beach (Great Britain)...directed by Gurinder Chadha Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (USA)...directed by Kermit Cole Blue (France/Poland/Switzerland)...directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski Farewell to My Cubine (Hong Kong/China)...directed by Chen Kaige The Snapper (Great Britain)...directed by Stephen Frear Tango Argentino (Serbia)...directed by Goran Paskalievic A Heart in Winter (France)...directed by Claude Sautet Most Popular Canadian Films- Federal Express Award The Blue Kite (China/Hong Kong)...directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang The Scent of the Green Papaya (Vietnam/ France)...directed by Tran Anh Hung For the Moment ...directed by Aaron Kim Johnston In the Land of the Deaf (France)...directed by Nicolas Philibert The Lotus Eaters (co-winners)...directed by Paul Shapiro Safe (Great Britain)...directed by Antonia Bird Tango Feroz (Argentina)...directed by Marcelo Pinevro other Canadian Film Favorites Flight of the Innocent (Italy)...directed by Carlo Carlei Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance...directed by Alanis Obomsawin The Long Silence (Italy)...directed by Margarethe von Trotta Blockade...directed by Nettie Wild Stalingrad (Germany)...Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier Zero Patience...directed by John Greyson Al Lupo, Al Lupo! (Italy)...directed by Carlo Verdone Le Sexe des Etoiles... directed by Paule Baillargeon Women From the Lake of Scented Souls (China)...directed by Xie Fei The Myth of the Male Orgasm...directed by John Hamilton a short interview with filmmaker Ann Marie fleming by Terry Dawes Vancouver filmmaker/poetess/maverick Ann Marie Fleming has concocted another cinematic feast for us film goers to gorge ourselves on like the little mud snorting piggy wiggys that we are. Idiosyncratic, relentlessly curious, visually resplendent; what don't | like about her movie style? She had two short films in this year’s big Festival competition: Buckingham Palace a very short 3Smm piece which formally was very nice but...(She